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This talk page is an example of a page which is formally in the namespace of talk pages of articles, with a "view article" link at the bottom to a page that is not in the main namespace but in the Wikipedia namespace: [[Wikipedia:Namespace]].

[[Wikipedia talk:Namespace]] (the regularly named talk page) also links to that, with the link labelled "View meta page".

[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:26, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Similarly (from pump):

[[User:Stevertigo]] recently created [[Talk:User:Eloquence]], which I'm pretty sure was a mistake. What's interesting is that the "View article" link (not "View user page", mind you) does actually link to [[User:Eloquence]]. This means everybody has two talk pages (sort of), a real talk page, and a talk page in the main Talk namespace. (I, of course, have a third talk page, at [[Talk:Cyan]] ;-). -- [[User:Cyan|Cyan]] 02:11, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Yeesh.-[[User:Stevertigo|戴&#30505sv]] 02:35, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

:Would actually making use of this unintended (?) feature be deprecated? I could think of several possible ways to make use of it. And I don't mean me personally, but there might be a more general consensus for what the Talk:User:Foobar page could signify, if we really put our minds to it. BTW. does it give Eloquence the '''You have new messages''' indicator, when it has text that he has not read yet? -- [[User:Cimon avaro|Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]] 11:07, Oct 14, 2003 (UTC)

:Frex one use would be to keep it as a dedicated page for personal announcements, like going on holiday from wikipedia (as if), or other pronouncements which are time-related. A sort of blog, written by only the user himself. Hmm. On second thoughts, maybe not... But there has to some useful function that page could serve, assuming of course that using it would not screw up search results in the main Namespace, or something similarly dire...? -- [[User:Cimon avaro|Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]] 15:08, Oct 14, 2003 (UTC)